CHESS PLAYER

Bent Larsen

1935 - 2010

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Jørgen Bent Larsen (4 March 1935 – 9 September 2010) was a Danish chess grandmaster and author. Known for his imaginative and unorthodox style of play, he was the second-strongest non-Soviet player, behind only Bobby Fischer, for much of the 1960s and 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bent Larsen has received more than 340,105 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Bent Larsen is the 33rd most popular chess player (down from 31st in 2019), the 163rd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 148th in 2019) and the most popular Danish Chess Player.

Memorability Metrics

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  • 58.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Bent Larsen ranks 33 out of 461. Before him are David Bronstein, Mikhail Chigorin, Miguel Najdorf, Savielly Tartakower, Vera Menchik, and Luis Ramírez de Lucena. After him are Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona, Carl Schlechter, Gioachino Greco, Lyudmila Rudenko, Legall de Kermeur, and Efim Bogoljubov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Bent Larsen ranks 82. Before him are Khalil al-Wazir, Lajos Tichy, Toni Sailer, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Charles Duke, and Floyd Patterson. After him are Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, Fritz Honka, Ron Paul, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Lee Remick, and Viktor Bryukhanov. Among people deceased in 2010, Bent Larsen ranks 63. Before him are John Forsythe, Hwang Jang-yop, Carlos Andrés Pérez, Wolfgang Wagner, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, and Giulietta Simionato. After him are Luis Corvalán, Ariel Ramírez, Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Satoshi Kon, and Solomon Burke.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Bent Larsen ranks 163 out of 1,032. Before him are Verner Panton (1926), Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt (1659), Rasmus Bartholin (1625), Paul Elvstrøm (1928), Haakon III of Norway (1182), and Adam Oehlenschläger (1779). After him are Preben Elkjær (1957), Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark (1649), Aksel Sandemose (1899), Carl Bloch (1834), Princess Margaret of Denmark (1895), and Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony (1532).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Denmark

Among chess players born in Denmark, Bent Larsen ranks 1. After him are Jacob Aagaard (1973).

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